Adding WP_Optimal Title Plugin

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With John’s recommendation, I decided to add the Optimal Title Plugin to my WP installation. I think that it should help increase the traffic from Google and other search engines.

The Plugin is simple in that it rearranges the title so that the post title appears first in the postings on the site. In theory that should result in an improvement in the search results. Well, having figured out how much traffic as a percentage I get from Google, let’s see if this will really work!…

Over the next few months, I’ll be trying different ways to generate traffic, as well. So look out for them. Other suggestions will include reducing and simplifying the number of categories, including more Technorati Tags, improving the Meta Information, and so on. This will take place gradually. In addition, I’m planning to change the theme and include a lot of changes to the presentation. Should be exciting. I’ll make the changes within a few weeks, I think.

VoIP Forums: Information and Service to the Vonage Community

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VoIP is all the range these days, and for people who are making their money online these days. If you are interested in finding out what these tech toys can do for you, then click on over to the Vonage VoIP Forums which provide a lot of support to users and prospective users of Vonage who are investigating the service. VoIP works in quite a simple way. The devices attach to the phone unit and your broadband connection, without a PC! You can make a phone call over the Internet without turning on the PC. Voila!
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You can find lots of opinions on the forums as well. Also, the forums are full of ways to solve some quite surprising problems, like faxing over Vonage, connecting your DISH network, etc.. You can find also information on some of the newest features such as 911 Dialing, 3 way calling, Caller ID Return and Blocking, and even Telephone Number portability.

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SEO: Where does your traffic come from?

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I just did an analysis of my traffic over the past 30 days to see where it was coming from. Interesting reading. I discovered that nearly 88% of my traffic occurs from just these six types of sources. Let me explain what these types are.

1. Forum traffic provides about 13% of my total traffic. Forums are communities of people who share like interests. I’m a member of quite a few communities but I don’t always check in. Forumosa, Digital Point, Payperpost, Adsensechat, TESOLTeachers, Steve Pavlina’s forum, among others. I’ve joined other communities, too, but I can’t remember what they are! Typically, I include my web address in the profile section, but recently I started including the most recent postings as part of my signature file to generate interest.

2. Blogs of course provide a lot of traffic, too. About 13% but much of this comes from links in articles, blogrolls, and comment traffic. Backtracks also help. The blogging community is too big to really point to any significant blog traffic from one particular blog.
3. Direct traffic accounts for 20%, but I’m still trying to find out what that means exactly. Anyone?
4. Traffic Generators are sites like Blogmad and Blogsoldiers type websites which aggregate information about blogs and direct traffic in different ways. These account for 14% of the traffic to this blog. But Blogmad and Blogsoldiers also use a surfbar type method which displays the blog for a short period of time. They do generate traffic, and some visitors, but the quality of the traffic is poor. Typically, visitors only see the first page in the rotator script, and that’s it. Views per Visit are typically little over 1. I foresee shortly ending the website’s relationship with these types of website.
5. Technorati on the other hand is a blog directory and search engine website that really does generate better quality traffic. In addition, they help rank the blogs according to how many people have also linked to your blog. Technorati brought about 7% of the traffic to the blog.

6. Surprisingly, or not, search engine traffic brought large shares of the traffic, with the lion’s share going to Google search traffic. Nearly 20% of the traffic came from Google Search alone. Wow! I hadn’t done much to improve those rankings except the obvious stuff: linking, blogrolls, directories and postings. For the term “investorblogger.com” Google produces 16,100 hits… Mmm.

What activities do you use to generate traffic? Have you tried any of these? What worked for you? What didn’t?